LinkedIn Launches Streamlined People Search
Not really, but in the link above, TechCrunch has a link to a YouTube video done by Esteban Kozak from LinkedIn.  In it Esteban, searches for Lucene and I come up right near the top!  The screen capture from TechCrunch also features my name and mug.  Too funny!  Even scarier is [...]

Obama may delay tax-cut rollback for wealthy – Yahoo! News
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat who is part of the majority leadership team in the Senate, told ABC’s “This Week” that an economic recovery package between $500 billion and $700 billion is needed and could be ready by the time Obama takes office [...]

Auto bankruptcy protection won’t work: report – Yahoo! News
I wonder how many shares Ross owns in the various auto companies.
Is it just me, or do a lot of the reports coming out sound a lot like the days prior to the Iraq invasion?  In other words, the press is once again just a spokesman for [...]

Ah, the art of the bait and switch…
Paulson: Government won’t buy troubled bank assets – Yahoo News

Ola Bildtsen
My good friend Ola has started blogging about his experience with things like Groovy, Grails, Flex and some other interesting areas.  I admit I don’t know much about those things, so, if that’s your thing, go check out his site!

For those of you that don’t know, there’s a band called Lynyrd Skynyrd that has a famous song called “Freebird”.  In particular, at the beginning of a recording of a live version of the song, singer Ronnie Van Zant asks the audience “What song is it you want to hear?”, upon which you hear a [...]